Co-Teachers: Melissa Hood and Rachel Sheldahl Instructional Strategy: Window Notes
What standard(s) are you addressing?
TPA Approved Lesson Plan Template
Desired Results
Co-Teaching: List the co-teaching style you’ll be using and why you have chosen this co-teaching method.
Window notes-students will take notes on presentation of information about posture, focusing on four different categories: facts, feelings, ideas, diagram
Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:
-Students will understand why practicing proper posture positively affects their singing ability Great.
-Students will understand how practicing proper posture makes them a more healthy person. Great
-Students will understand that throughout our daily lives many of us do not practice healthy posture (the repercussions of that). (NO) -Students will understand the repercussions of not practicing healthy posture.
Assessment Evidence
What do you want your students to know?
-Students will know how to tell by looking at someone if they have correct posture or not - students will know techniques to align their bodies properly
Additional Comments:
- Melissa, wait until or mandate that ALL students are listening to you BEFORE you move ahead with content. Never talk over them...if you do this, you're saying that what you are saying is not important enough to you to demand their full attention in order to deliver it. Also, slow down your rate of speech. You have a lot of good things to say. And you are a fast talker (I am too). You'll have to intentionally slow yourself down so that students will have the opportunity to hear every word you say!
Group Accountability (Formative Evaluation) How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?
By assessing them as we progress through the hands on activities. - HOW? What will you DO to "assess" them. What does "assess them" mean? By listening in on their group discussions. What will you be listening for?
What do you want students to be able to do?
-Students should be able to demonstrate proper posture and alignment -Students should be able to discuss and analyze how proper posture/alignment feels
Your lesson is quite tightly aligned (every element is related to another). This is good.
Learning Plan
What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?
“Sit Bones” Posture, stance, slouch, line of access
How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?
Students will primarily learn the vocabulary by seeing Rachel and I act it out and then in turn acting it out themselves.
You used "line of access" throughout your lesson. I still don't know what it is?
What is/are the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson?
-How can proper posture/alignment help you to feel and sing better? Good.
Materials/Resources Required:
-Document Camera
-Computer/Internet Access
-Paper and writing utensils
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Method/Strategy (What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)
Hook: Youtube Clip: A Vintage Guide to Good Posture 3 Min
Introduce Topic of Discussion: Posture/alignment 1 Min
“Window Notes” note-taking-introduction 1 Min
Ideas/Questions portion (share with class) 3 Min
Mini Lecture: Presentation of content (on alignment and posture) 4 Min
Continuation of Window Notes: Facts/Diagram
Share with small group 2 Min
Hands on Learning:
Stand up and stretch-backrubs, toe-touch, neck roll, shoulder roll 3 Min - we skipped this?
Sit bone exercise-Find your sitbones (and discussion) 1 Min - we skipped this?
Rag doll exercise/demonstration (Rachel) 2 Min
“String attached to top head” 1 Min
Reflection/discussion: Finish Window Notes-Feeling. 4 Min - Melissa, would you use a "Window-Notes" exercise in your future teaching?
How did it feel when you did each of the exercises?
Where you surprised?
How might having a relaxed and “action-ready” body help you in other
areas of your life? Examples?
Discuss in Groups
Discuss with class
(Rachel and I attend to different groups)
Time: 30 min.
Co-Teachers: Melissa Hood and Rachel Sheldahl
Instructional Strategy: Window Notes
What standard(s) are you addressing?
TPA Approved Lesson Plan Template
Window notes-students will take notes on presentation of information about posture, focusing on four different categories: facts, feelings, ideas, diagram
-Students will understand why practicing proper posture positively affects their singing ability Great.
-Students will understand how practicing proper posture makes them a more healthy person. Great
-Students will understand that throughout our daily lives many of us do not practice healthy posture (the repercussions of that). (NO)
-Students will understand the repercussions of not practicing healthy posture.
-Students will know how to tell by looking at someone if they have correct posture or not
- students will know techniques to align their bodies properly
- Melissa, wait until or mandate that ALL students are listening to you BEFORE you move ahead with content. Never talk over them...if you do this, you're saying that what you are saying is not important enough to you to demand their full attention in order to deliver it. Also, slow down your rate of speech. You have a lot of good things to say. And you are a fast talker (I am too). You'll have to intentionally slow yourself down so that students will have the opportunity to hear every word you say!
How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?
By assessing them as we progress through the hands on activities. - HOW? What will you DO to "assess" them. What does "assess them" mean?
By listening in on their group discussions. What will you be listening for?
-Students should be able to demonstrate proper posture and alignment
-Students should be able to discuss and analyze how proper posture/alignment feels
Your lesson is quite tightly aligned (every element is related to another). This is good.
“Sit Bones”
Posture, stance, slouch, line of access
Students will primarily learn the vocabulary by seeing Rachel and I act it out and then in turn acting it out themselves.
You used "line of access" throughout your lesson. I still don't know what it is?
-How can proper posture/alignment help you to feel and sing better? Good.
-Document Camera
-Computer/Internet Access
-Paper and writing utensils
(What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)
Ideas/Questions portion (share with class) 3 Min
Continuation of Window Notes: Facts/Diagram
Share with small group 2 Min
Stand up and stretch-backrubs, toe-touch, neck roll, shoulder roll 3 Min - we skipped this?
Sit bone exercise-Find your sitbones (and discussion) 1 Min - we skipped this?
Rag doll exercise/demonstration (Rachel) 2 Min
“String attached to top head” 1 Min
Reflection/discussion: Finish Window Notes-Feeling. 4 Min - Melissa, would you use a "Window-Notes" exercise in your future teaching?
How did it feel when you did each of the exercises?
Where you surprised?
How might having a relaxed and “action-ready” body help you in other
areas of your life? Examples?
Discuss in Groups
Discuss with class
(Rachel and I attend to different groups)